...at its tip was christened California.8 This fanciful name—derived from a popular thriller relating that on the "right hand of the Indies there is an island called California," rich in gold, diamonds, and pearls, and peopled by black women living as Amazons 9 —spread irresistibly...

...1904- . PS57I.C2G7 1990 813'. 010832794 — dc20 90-37672 CIP AC In 1510 a Spanish romancer described an island called California, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise." It was inhabited by Amazons, and even the harnesses of the beasts they rode were gold. Thus began the...

...exotic island ruled by a queen named Calafia. Montalvo 's description seems eerily prophetic: Know then, that on the right hand of the Indies, there is an...was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardy bodies, of ardent courage...

...novelist Garcf Ordonez de Montalvo expressed his ideas about the gender possibilities of the New World. "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is...an island called California, very close to ... the Terrestrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived...

...from Las Sergds de Esplandidn by Garci Ord6nez de Montalvo, published in Seville in 1510: "Know ye that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the Earthly Paradise." He quotes from James D. Houston's Californians: "I don't think of California as...

...spoke of it and twenty-five years before he visited the lower peninsula. In stanza 157 the poem says, «Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near the terrestrial paradise». I suppose that the discoverers, astonished by the beauty and fertility...

...and magic enchantments and, hard by the Terrestrial Paradise, a golden island peopled with Amazons. Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is...was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardy bodies, of ardent courage...

...discovery of the area by two decades, created a California of the mind that still intrigues: "Know ye that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California." There you have it. Illusion preceded reality and this state has rarely been viewed as conventional...

...to write home about. Our mythology began long ago. In 1510, Card Ordonez de Montalvo wrote, "Know ye that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California." Illusion already under way. Our state's mystique is the prism though which the entire world watches,...

...his two brother monks — the first unarmed mission of the Church upon the soil of the United States. "Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is...was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardy bodies, of ardent courage...